Robert Warington, F.R.S.

Abstract

WE regret to learn of the death of Mr Robert Warington, F.R.S., at Harpenden on March 20. Mr. Warington was the son of Robert Warington, F.R.S., for a long time chemist for the Society of Apothecaries, and was born in 1838. Being of delicate health, he was educated entirely at home, and learnt his first chemistry from his father. In 1859 he worked for some time as a voluntary assistant in the Rothamsted Laboratory, and in 1862 went to the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester as assistant, first to the late Dr. Augustus Voelcker, and then to Prof. A. H. Church. In the next nine years Warington was chemist at Sir John Lawes's tartaric acid works, but in 1876, being desirous of devoting himself entirely to research, he came again to the Rothamsted Laboratory, where he remained until 1890.